Buckeye Country!

I hope everyone had as good of a week as I did! My most recent trip was to Defiance, OH. It is a small farm town in the northwest corner of Ohio. I was told that by my personal assistant (my sweet little mother) that we would be flying into Ft. Wayne, IN and driving over to Ohio. Hoowweeverr, once we flew into Cincinnati, I looked at the television screens and saw that there were not any flights to Ft. Wayne. I panicked for about 5 seconds until she started dragging me away and had a funny look on her face. Turns out, she surprised me by flying us to Indianapolis! Many of you probably do not know this but I tried all summer long to get up to Indiana to see friends but my plans kept changing and I never made it up there...until now!

We landed in Indy and we drove to meet my really good friend Milena for lunch. I directed my driver (my sweet little mother) in the wrong direction so that took away time from hanging out with Mel. We finally made it and had a super fast lunch with her before she had to leave and get ready to move the next morning to her new home of Athens, GA where she is now a Bulldog!

Mel and I after lunch in Carmel, IN


We drove on to Defiance and quickly realized that we should have stayed in Indianapolis. There was absolutely nothing to do! We saw Julie & Julia one night. Get this...two movie tickets, two popcorns, and a large drink = $14. That was about the only good thing in this town. That's okay though because we were here for the golf!


It was a two day tournament and I must say, I really enjoyed myself. I played with some neat people and played well. I ended up getting 4th so it was a worthwhile trip up north. Once again, I don't know what the pay check is going to be because I left without finding out. It's kind of a nice surprise when I get it in the mail. In my last round, I was paired with Katy who I played with in my first professional tournament at the beginning of this summer. She's an Aussie and absolutely hilarious! We have basically played in every tournament together this summer. Australians have a decorative language and I must admit that four letter words tend to make me laugh so as you can see, we laughed a lot:


Once the tournament was finished, we booked it back south towards Indianapolis so that we could make our flight the next morning. We stopped in good ol' Muncie, IN to see my teammates hometown. The sad thing was my teammate was already back in Norman for summer school but I still got to experience her home and see her awesome family! We had a good time and they ordered me my own Pizza King pizza! It was pretty dang tasty so if anyone is ever in that part of the state, I recommend getting one for the road. I had to get a picture with the family dog Bear just to prove that I was in fact in Funcie/Muncie!
I've been home for a few days now and have spent time catching up with friends and trying to earn some cash here and there by giving lessons and working junior tournaments. I've learned that I love being on the road and I love being on the go. The new school year is approaching and I can't believe that I'm not down in Norman getting ready for it. It's going to be a good change for me and I'm excited to buckle down and start preparing for Q school. I leave on September 13th for Palm Springs so I have a few weeks to tune my game up. I hope everyone soaks up the last bit of summer before the school year gets in full swing. Until next time!


What I'm reading: The Art of Racing in the Rain
What I'm hearing: Eric Hutchinson "Sounds Like This"

Home from Big Blue Country

Hello everyone!I want to apologize for my poor effort in keeping this up-to-date. I am going to try my best to write more often. My mom and I just returned home from northwest Michigan this morning and I am glad to be home for a couple of days. The trip was wonderful. The weather was cool (we had permanent goosebumps) but it was a nice change from our 100 degree temps in Oklahoma. The bugs were awful! I have never seen flies that big and that slow moving!! We all felt suffocated out there on the course. As if golf wasn't hard enough, we had to deal with 100 flies around us on every shot. The course was in perfect shape and the field had numerous LPGA players so that provided great competition.

I started off the tournament with an unlucky triple bogey. I have been fighting the rights off the tee and it got the best of me by going out of bounds but it made me focus for the rest of the round and came back the next day with an under par round. Yesterday (the final round) was a very solid round and I'm pretty happy with how I played. I finished the tournament at T15th and made $850. I am learning each week and improving mentally and physically so the journey has been a success thus far.

My mom and I at Lake Michigan

A quick update from the month of July: I traveled to Crossville, TN to play in the Tennessee Womens Open and finished T11th. Made $600 but unfortunately finished the tournament bogey, bogey, double, bogey. Oh what it could have been with just four pars to finish..

My home club, The Greens Country Club, sponsored me with my own membership and line of Nike clothes so I will be sporting the "G" while I play in tournaments. I am extremely happy that they want me to stay there to practice and play. I love the members and the employees so I'm a happy girl! Other sponsorships are coming along and I'm extremely relieved and happy about that. It is HAAARDD work but it is fun at the same time to find people who want to support me and my lifelong dream.

Tennessee Open #14 Par 3 (my favorite hole!)

The Greens signing day

I found out that I was on the alternate list for two Futures events in August so I dropped out and added the Ohio Womens Open which I will be leaving for this coming Saturday and play Monday and Tuesday. After that, I will be home for a month getting ready for the LPGA Q School in September. My entry fee has been sent off so I am hoping to hear back from them in the coming days to let me know that I'm in! This summer has been a fun one to where I have learned a lot about myself and realize that I have a lot of work left in order to get to where I want to be. I know that I have it in me to succeed at the highest level but I just need to believe it for every second of every day. Well, I'm off to the course and will meet my brother later tonight to help him get ready for the Greens Club Championship this weekend! Wish him luck! The Dyes are back at it again!!!